Mobberley No. 2
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Image Source: digital photograph in the Parish websitr [http://www.mobberleychurch.co.uk/5.html] [accessed 18 February 2010]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 10767MOB
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century [base only] -- 16th century[basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Wilfrid
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, by the SW door
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Wilfrid [aka Wilfred, Wilfrith]
Site Location: Cheshire, North West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the B5085, just NE of Knutsford
Additional Comments: composite font -- this is a real creative mess. A Frankestein of fonts! [cf. FontNotes] -- emailed rector Ian Blay req'g permit to repro font photo (18 Feb 2010)
Font Notes:
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Richards (1973) reports two fonts in this church: "The one now in use in the church, by the south west door, rests on the base of an old Tudor font inverted, the pedestal being the base of a fourteenth century holy water basin." [cf. Index entry for Mobberley No. 1 for the other font in this church]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
- Richards, Raymond, Old Cheshire churches: a survey of their history, fabric and furniture with records of the older monuments, with a supplementary survey relating to the lesser old chapels of Cheshire, Didsbury, Manchester: E.J. Morten, 1973, p. 240